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About: Bow wave is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1432 publications have been published within this topic receiving 43510 citations.


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TL;DR: The average and unusual locations of magnetopause and bow shock positions observed by IMP spacecraft were analyzed in this paper, showing that the bow shock position is unusual for the Earth's magnetic field.
Abstract: Average and unusual locations of magnetopause and bow shock positions observed by IMP spacecraft

870 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the Taylor expansion of the Dirichlet Neumann operator in homogeneous powers of the surface elevation η and the velocity potential ϕ is proposed to simulate the water wave problem in a channel for a fluid of finite or infinite depth.

610 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the bow-shock models of HH objects are used to predict the line ratios and line profiles expected from HH objects, and a simple analytic formula is presented that can be used to estimate the shock velocity and bow-shaking orientation from a single high-resolution observation of a low-excitation line.
Abstract: The bow-shock models of HH objects presently constructed from a collection of 43 radiative-planar-shock models are used to predict the line ratios and line profiles expected from HH objects. It is found that a radiating-bow-shock model formed around a 'bullet' of dense gas plowing into the ambient medium accounts for existing observations sufficiently well to constitute a unifying model. For particular bow-shock orientations, double-peaked profiles are predicted in spatially unresolved spectra. A simple analytic formula is presented that can be used to estimate the shock velocity and bow-shock orientation from a single high-resolution observation of a low-excitation line. 63 references.

514 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, a hybrid simulation model with kinetic ions, massless fluid electrons, and phenomenological resistivity is used to investigate the perpendicular configuration of the bow shocks of the earth and other planets.
Abstract: A hybrid simulation model with kinetic ions, massless fluid electrons, and phenomenological resistivity is used to investigate the perpendicular configuration of the bow shocks of the earth and other planets. The range of parameters investigated includes the upstream Mach number, electron and ion beta (ratios of thermal to magnetic pressure), and resistivity. It is found that electron beta and resistivity have little effect on the overall shock structure. Quasi-stationary structures are obtained at moderately high ion beta, whereas the shock is found to become more dynamic in the low ion beta, large Mach number regime. The simulation results are shown to agree well with a number of observational features of quasi-perpendicular bow shocks, including the morphology of the reflected ion stream, the magnetic field profile throughout the shock, and the Mach number dependence of the magnetic field overshoot.

465 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, measurements from the Lepedea plasma instruments and the flux gate magnetometers on ISEE 1 and 2 are used to examine the nature of the hydromagnetic waves associated with the various classes of ions backstreaming from the earth's bow shock.
Abstract: Measurements from the Lepedea plasma instruments and the flux gate magnetometers on ISEE 1 and 2 are used to examine the nature of the hydromagnetic waves associated with the various classes of ions backstreaming from the earth's bow shock. The reflected ions, which are confined to a narrow energy and angular range, are accompanied by small amplitude (less than approximately 1/2 gamma peak to peak) left-handed waves at frequencies close to 1 Hz in the spacecraft frame. Diffuse backstreaming particles with a broad energy spectrum are associated with low frequency (approximately 30-s period), large amplitude (approximately 5 gamma peak to peak) waves. Intermediate particles are associated with a mixture of these two wave types. Often the waves associated with the diffuse beams steepen as if they were minishocks. The leading edge (trailing edge in the spacecraft frame) frequently appears to break up into a whistler mode wave packet. These discrete wave packets are right-hand polarized and have frequencies from below the proton gyrofrequency to well above it in the plasma frame and are blown back towards the earth by the solar wind.

463 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
202315
202226
20215
202010
201921
201815